The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-11-17
SUMMING UP.

SUMMING UP.
They cannot be too speedily hanged.
Bilious editors may say the |
hanging of these men will be sowing |
Dragons teeth. but their mawkish SEN
timent is the bag whence comes the |
foul seed and not the due execution Of |
righteous law.
The above Is from our dying cotem-
porary. the Worthington Globe, and is
supposed to be a gasping, expiring
thrust at tue ADVANCE editor. The |
paragraph was written by a preacher
of the gospel of Christ and is publish
ed in paper which claims to be the
organ of the churches, til" temperance
element, the Christian element of the |
town. On the other hand. the AD-
VANCE is said to be edited by ''b-a-d"
and Dangerous" man, and to repre-
sent "Nin6delity". and kindred evils.
Yet the preacher and the church organ
Call vehemently for the lives of the
seven men, while the ADVANCE pleads
for both justice and mercy. The
preacher aud church organ says ''let US
kill them!'' while the wicked AD.
VANCE says ''thou shalt not kjll.'
The paper which assumes to speak for
the followers of Christ, whose gospel
is love and mercy, cries out "away
with them, cruelty them! cruelty
theD!" while the so called ''Ninfidel"
ADVANCE says "spare their lives; do
not kill men for mere agitation and
the utterance of sentiments, even
though the language he violent" The
preacher editor says ''kill the two
brother editors for what they wrote
and said," while the ADVANCE says,
''they had right to speak and write;
do not kill them, even though they had
themselves taken life."
But the condemned men are now
disposed of and the ADVANCE wishes
only, in summing up, to put on record
the views it has expressed from time
to time since the Haymarket meeting:
l. That the condem ued Anarchists
will become the John Browns Of u
revolution. Already the picture Of
Spies hangs in every socialist saloon in
London, labeled "Our Second Savior" "
2. That the police and the authori.
ties formed a conspiracy to convict,
and that the men did not have fair
trial. Nearly every safeguard intend
ed by the Federal and State constitu-
tions and by the law and the rules Of
c,urts, Was either violated or lodged
They were convicted by puDlic clamor
and pressure, and as Otis T. Favor, :.
prominent business man, swor+. it was
not safe for any man ut that time to-
do anything in favor of the Anarchists
and that special Bailiff Rice admitted
that the jury was being packed to con
vict.
8. That the offence of these men
was not common crime, and with
most of them no crime at all. The Of.
fense, il anything, was quasi-political,
and no possible twisting can make it
common murder, or make the men &C
cessory to common murder. Even
the coward]y supreme court of Illinois.
when it came to. consider this question,
overlooked the real issue in the case
and got up theory of its own called
''unlawful conspiracy" and on this
ground refused to interfere. Ye gods!
how the history of injustice repeats
itself: "And Felix, willing to show
the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound"
4. Parsons and Spies suffer for free
speech. For years men have been i'm
prisoned by the score in the United
States for the exercise of free speech,
and now packed jury in Chicago has
condemned men to death for free
speech III free America. That was the
verdict and that is now the pernicions,
the devilish precedent. The judge
pronounces sentence and all the higher
courts refuse to interfere.
5. The hanging of these men has
sown Dragons teeth which will spring
up into armed men just as the hanging
Of John Brown did. We are not in
sympathy with Anarchy or bomb
throwing; we are not in sympathy with
the other extreme, viz: monopoly and
aristocracy; and we rejoice in being so
''bilious" and "mawkish" as not to he
in sympathy with those bloody and
murderous followers of ''the meek and
lowly Jesus" who clamor for the blood
of men who were put on trial for mur-
der, but were convicted and hanged for
so-called ''conspiracy."
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